Over 85% of the High Peak Estate is open country, over which you can roam freely. The remaining area is enclosed farmland - let to and managed by farm tenants - which you can explore along footpaths and bridleways.
The wild landscape is largely heather and grass moorland on the brown sandstone and black shales of the millstone grit.
The farmers, whose sheep graze the land, earn a living from these rugged hillsides, like many generations before them.
Around Edale the National Trust has built up a 2,000-acre estate of hill farms, centred on the 1,700 feet high Mam Tor.
They are an integral part of the fabric of the area and, year on year, the National Trust continues to maintain them, safeguarding the spirit of the Peak District for generations to come.
On Mam Tor you can imagine the Celtic tribes who lived, farmed and fought here 4000 years ago in the Iron Age.
The weather-worn gritstone rocks of Derwent Edge are a perfect platform to view the breathtaking panoramas over the High Peak Estate.
The National Trust protects 23 working farms and 400 acres of woodland in the High Peak area.
With the large expanse of open access land on the moors there is an unparalleled choice for the walker.
There are gentle strolls through the dales to some of the toughest walking in Britain across the peat bogs of the Dark Peak.
The High Peak Estate has over 32,000 acres of heather moors, valleys, gritstone edges, crags and peat bogs, including Mam Tor, Alport Valley and Winnats Pass.
